Teachers for the Future: Blind Luck or Purposeful Planning From the perspective of Maggie Niess Oregon State University
Dec 11, 2015
Teachers for the Future:
Blind Luck or
Purposeful PlanningFrom the perspective of
Maggie NiessOregon State University
This was me thinking about the topic on Monday
After attending many of the sessions
How a person learns a particular set of
knowledge and skills, and the situation in which a person learns, become a fundamental
part of what is learned.
~ Putnam & Borko, 2000
i.e.,
Teachers tend to teach what they were taught and how they
were taught
Life is too short for long division!
Teachers must be charged with rethinking the curriculum
given the impact of technology on what is
important to know and be able to do in the 21st century.
If we teach today as we taught yesterday,
then we rob our children of tomorrow.
~John Dewey So, teachers must be charged with changing how they guide students in learning the new curriculum
(the pedagogy).
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
~Abraham Maslow
Teachers must charged with changing along with the evolving technologies that they integrate when teaching
the new curriculum incorporating new and emerging pedagogical ways.
No one ever said teaching was
easy.
Why do we act as if it is?~ Maggie Niess
Subject Matter
Technology
Teaching and Learning
And then we HOPE!
Hope is not a strategy.
~Thomas McInerney
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but
those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
~Alvin Toffler
What we want for our children...we should want for their teachers, that
schools be places of learning for both of them, and that such learning be suffused with excitement,
engagement, passion, challenge, creativity, and
joy. ~Andy Hargraves
New thinking that brings an end to business (teacher preparation) as usual
~Paul Resta• Change the school/teaching culture -
– Accept that teachers need to learn as they teach … daily
– Provide teachers with the infrastructure to support them in this new role (technology, time, resources, …)
– Support teachers in learning, unlearning and relearning
The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly
distributed. ~ William Gibson
• Teachers as mentors and professionals collaborating across traditionial barriers– Their classroom doors– Their school doors– Their district doors– Their state/geographic region doors
• Create, share, exchange ideas that begin erasing the knowledge divide– Collaborations of teacher educators, teachers, preservice teachers and students
The future is already upon us, it is just unevenly
distributed. ~ William Gibson
• Foster public/private partnerships – Businesses have a stake in the products of education
• Proactive role in reducing the barriers that isolate and discourage teachers from trying new ideas
• Others.. For you to envision!
Not possible?
• Wrong!• Begin with pilot projects• Make use of online learning - continue to build and expand the projects
• Make use of blogs, wikis, …• Collaborate across traditional barriers– Partner preservice teachers with multiple cooperating teachers - one locally, others at a distance
Hope is not a strategy for making
this change.
~Thomas McInerney & Maggie Niess
It can be done
If we are to meet the needs of the students of the 21st
century!
Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK)
Subject Matter
Technology
Teaching and Learning
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